Tongarra real estate
NSW 2527 · Shellharbour City Council · About 16 km from our Shell Cove office
The suburb
Living in Tongarra
Tongarra is a rural locality in the City of Shellharbour, west of Albion Park, with Tullimbar, Calderwood, Yellow Rock Ridge and Macquarie Pass around it. The Illawarra Highway runs through it towards the escarpment. It has been dairy country since at least the 1890s, when a small dairy factory opened here, and it has stayed clear of suburban development: farms, paddocks and homes on large holdings.
The market
Prices and rents in Tongarra
Median house price, postcode 2527
+18.8% on a year earlier
Median unit or townhouse price, 2527
+9.3% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, houses, 2527
+15.1% on a year earlier
Median weekly rent, townhouses, 2527
Postcode sale prices: NSW Rent and Sales Report, March quarter 2026, sales in postcode 2527. Rents: NSW Rent and Sales Report, June quarter 2026, median of new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading for postcode 2527. © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), CC BY 4.0. Medians are a guide, not a valuation. Compare all suburbs.
Living here
Farmland under the escarpment
Life here is rural, with the escarpment and Macquarie Pass National Park to the west, where the Macquarie Rivulet begins its run down to Lake Illawarra. Albion Park is the nearest town for shops, schools and services, and the station is at Albion Park Rail. The Illawarra Highway leads east to the M1 Princes Motorway and west up the pass to the Southern Highlands.
The people
Who lives in Tongarra
People
Median age
Median household income a week
- Owned outright 30.2%
- Owned with a mortgage 46.5%
- Rented 27.9%
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Tongarra (SAL13918). © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Tenure shares are of occupied private dwellings and don't add to 100% where some households didn't say. Small populations: the ABS adjusts small counts slightly to protect privacy.
Selling
Selling in Tongarra
Holdings in Tongarra change hands rarely, and value rests on the land: its size, water, zoning, access from the highway, any creek frontage, and the state of the house and sheds. We appraise rural property from comparable sales around Albion Park and the Macquarie Valley and can explain what buyers of farmland and acreage look for.
Renting it out instead? We manage rental homes in Tongarra too, where houses in the postcode lease for around $800 a week.
Questions
About Tongarra
What is the median house price in Tongarra?
Houses across postcode 2527, which includes Tongarra, sold for a median of $1,010,000 in the March quarter 2026, up 18.8% on a year earlier, according to the NSW Rent and Sales Report. Prices within a postcode vary a lot from street to street, which is what an appraisal accounts for.
How much does it cost to rent a house in Tongarra?
The median weekly rent for a house across postcode 2527 was $800 in the June quarter 2026, from new bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading. Ask us for a rental appraisal of your property for a figure that reflects its size and condition.
Do you sell homes in Tongarra?
Yes. Monique Field Property sells and manages homes in Tongarra, about 16 km from our office on Harbour Boulevard in Shell Cove. Book a free appraisal and we'll show you recent sales near you and what we'd expect your home to sell for.
What's your Tongarra home worth?
A free appraisal from Monique: recent sales near you, what's on the market, and the price range she'd expect.